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82 relations: Adrian Lester, African Americans, African Free School, African Grove, African Theatre, Amanda Christina Elizabeth Aldridge, American Civil War, Aphra Behn, August von Kotzebue, Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois, Łódź, Bath, Somerset, Bern, Blue plaque, Bryant's Minstrels, Budapest, Charles L. Reason, Charles Mathews, Congress Poland, Coventry, Devon, Dublin, Edinburgh, Edmund Kean, Edward Young, Emir Abdelkader, English Heritage, Exmouth, Frederick William III of Prussia, Frederick William IV of Prussia, Fula people, Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, George Melville Baker, George T. Downing, Henry Francis Downing, Henry Highland Garnet, Highgate Wood, Historically black colleges and universities, Howard University, James Hewlett, James McCune Smith, James Northcote, John A. Arneaux, Kiln Theatre, King Lear, Liverpool, Lolita Chakrabarti, Maltese cross, Manchester Art Gallery, Margaret Gill, ..., Mikhail Shchepkin, Minstrel show, New York Manumission Society, Oroonoko, Othello, Park Theatre (Manhattan), Pastel, Paul Robeson, Quintus Roscius Gallus, Red Velvet (play), Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Royalty Theatre, Russian Empire, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Serbia, Stratford-upon-Avon, Taras Shevchenko, The Captive Slave, The Globe (London newspaper), The Merchant of Venice, The New York Times, The Old Vic, The Padlock, The Times, Thomas Southerne, Thomas William Robertson, Trewman's Exeter Flying Post, Tsar, Upper Norwood, William Shakespeare, 100 Greatest African Americans. Expand index (32 more) »
Adrian Lester
Adrian Anthony Lester, OBE (born 14 August 1968), born Anthony Harvey, is an English actor, director, and writer.
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African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
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African Free School
The African Free School was an institution founded by members of the New York Manumission Society on November 2, 1787, including Alexander Hamilton and John Jay.
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African Grove
The African Grove Theatre was a theatre founded and operated by William Alexander BrownHatch, James V., and Ted Shine.
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African Theatre
The African Theatre was an African-American acting troupe in New York City established by William Henry Brown in the 1820s.
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Amanda Christina Elizabeth Aldridge
Amanda Christina Elizabeth Aldridge, also known as Amanda Ira Aldridge (10 March 1866 – 9 March 1956), was a British opera singer, teacher and composer, under the pseudonym of Montague Ring.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.
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Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn (14 December 1640? (baptismal date)–16 April 1689) was a British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer from the Restoration era.
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August von Kotzebue
August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue (–) was a German dramatist and writer who also worked as a consul in Russia and Germany.
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Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois
Auguste Anicet, later Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois (25 December 1806 – 12 January 1871) was a French dramatist.
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Łódź
Łódź (לאדזש, Lodzh; also written as Lodz) is the third-largest city in Poland and an industrial hub.
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Bath, Somerset
Bath is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, known for its Roman-built baths.
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Bern
Bern or Berne (Bern, Bärn, Berne, Berna, Berna) is the de facto capital of Switzerland, referred to by the Swiss as their (e.g. in German) Bundesstadt, or "federal city".
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Blue plaque
A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom and elsewhere to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.
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Bryant's Minstrels
Bryant's Minstrels was a blackface minstrel troupe that performed in the mid-19th century, primarily in New York City.
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Budapest
Budapest is the capital and the most populous city of Hungary, and one of the largest cities in the European Union.
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Charles L. Reason
Charles Lewis Reason was a mathematician, linguist, and educator.
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Charles Mathews
Charles Mathews (28 June 1776, London – 28 June 1835, Devonport) was an English theatre manager and comic actor, well known during his time for his gift of impersonation and skill at table entertainment.
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Congress Poland
The Kingdom of Poland, informally known as Congress Poland or Russian Poland, was created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a sovereign state of the Russian part of Poland connected by personal union with the Russian Empire under the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland until 1832.
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Coventry
Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.
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Devon
Devon, also known as Devonshire, which was formerly its common and official name, is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south.
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Dublin
Dublin is the capital of and largest city in Ireland.
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.
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Edmund Kean
Edmund Kean (4 November 178715 May 1833) was a celebrated British Shakespearean stage actor born in England, who performed, among other places, in London, Belfast, New York, Quebec, and Paris. He was somewhat notorious for his short stature, tumultuous personal life, and controversial divorce.
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Edward Young
Edward Young (3 July 1683 – 5 April 1765) was an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts.
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Emir Abdelkader
Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine (6 September 1808 – 26 May 1883; عبد القادر ابن محيي الدين), known as the Emir Abdelkader or Abdelkader El Djezairi, was an Algerian religious and military leader who led a struggle against the French colonial invasion in the mid-19th century.
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English Heritage
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a registered charity that manages the National Heritage Collection.
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Exmouth
Exmouth is a port town, civil parish and seaside resort, sited on the east bank of the mouth of the River Exe.
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Frederick William III of Prussia
Frederick William III (Friedrich Wilhelm III) (3 August 1770 – 7 June 1840) was king of Prussia from 1797 to 1840.
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Frederick William IV of Prussia
Frederick William IV (Friedrich Wilhelm IV.; 15 October 17952 January 1861), the eldest son and successor of Frederick William III of Prussia, reigned as King of Prussia from 1840 to 1861.
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Fula people
The Fula people or Fulani or Fulany or Fulɓe (Fulɓe; Peul; Fulani or Hilani; Fula; Pël; Fulaw), numbering between 40 and 50 million people in total, are one of the largest ethnic groups in the Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region.
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Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy
Count Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy (Фёдор Петрович Толстой; 21 February 1783 – 25 April 1873) was a Russian artist who served as Vice-President of the Imperial Academy of Arts for forty years (1828–1868).
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George Melville Baker
George Melville Baker (1832–1890) was a playwright and publisher in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.
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George T. Downing
George T. Downing (December 30, 1819 – July 21, 1903) was an abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights while building a successful career as a restaurateur in New York city; Newport, Rhode Island; and Washington, DC.
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Henry Francis Downing
Henry Francis Downing (1846 – February 19, 1928)Jessica Salo,, BlackPast.org was an African-American sailor, politician, dramatist and novelist.
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Henry Highland Garnet
Henry Highland Garnet (December 23, 1815 – February 13, 1882) was an African-American abolitionist, minister, educator and orator.
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Highgate Wood
Highgate Wood is a 28 hectare (70 acre) area of ancient woodland in North London, lying between East Finchley, Highgate Village, and Muswell Hill.
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Historically black colleges and universities
Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the African-American community.
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Howard University
Howard University (HU or simply Howard) is a federally chartered, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university (HBCU) in Washington, D.C. It is categorized by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with higher research activity and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
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James Hewlett
James Hewlett (fl. 1821-1839) was an African-American actor.
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James McCune Smith
James McCune Smith (April 18, 1813 – November 17, 1865) was an African-American physician, apothecary, abolitionist, and author.
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James Northcote
James Northcote (Plymouth 22 October 1746 – 13 July 1831 London) was an English painter.
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John A. Arneaux
John A. Arneaux (born 1855) was a Shakespearean actor and journalist in New York City and in Paris, France.
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Kiln Theatre
Kiln Theatre (formerly the Tricycle Theatre) is on Kilburn High Road in Kilburn in the London Borough of Brent, England.
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King Lear
King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.
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Liverpool
Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.
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Lolita Chakrabarti
Lolita Chakrabarti (born 1 June 1969 in Kingston upon Hull) is a British actress and writer.
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Maltese cross
The Maltese cross is the cross symbol associated with the Order of St. John since 1567, with the Knights Hospitaller and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, and by extension with the island of Malta.
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Manchester Art Gallery
Manchester Art Gallery, formerly Manchester City Art Gallery, is a publicly owned art museum on Mosley Street in Manchester city centre.
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Margaret Gill
Margaret Gill (1797-1864) was born in Yorkshire, England, and was the first wife of African-American actor Ira Frederick Aldridge.
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Mikhail Shchepkin
Mikhail Semyonovich Shchepkin (Михаи́л Семёнович Ще́пкин,, the village Krasnoe, Oboyan county, Kursk Province —) was the most famous Russian Empire actor of the 19th century.
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Minstrel show
The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American form of entertainment developed in the early 19th century.
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New York Manumission Society
The New York Manumission Society was an American organization founded in 1785 by U.S. Founding Father John Jay, among others, to promote the gradual abolition of slavery and manumission of slaves of African descent within the state of New York.
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Oroonoko
Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave is a short work of prose fiction by Aphra Behn (1640–1689), published in 1688 by William Canning and reissued with two other fictions later that year.
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Othello
Othello (The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603.
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Park Theatre (Manhattan)
The Park Theatre, originally known as the New Theatre, was a playhouse in New York City, located at 21, 23, and 25 Park Row, about east of Ann Street and backing Theatre Alley.
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Pastel
A pastel is an art medium in the form of a stick, consisting of pure powdered pigment and a binder.
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Paul Robeson
Paul Leroy Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass baritone concert artist and stage and film actor who became famous both for his cultural accomplishments and for his political activism.
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Quintus Roscius Gallus
Quintus Roscius (ca. 126 BC – 62 BC) was a Roman actor.
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Red Velvet (play)
Red Velvet is a 2012 play by Lolita Chakrabarti, dealing with the biography of the 19th century actor Ira Aldridge and his taking the role of Othello.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 17517 July 1816) was an Irish satirist, a playwright and poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
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Royal Shakespeare Theatre
The Royal Shakespeare Theatre (RST) is a 1,040+ seat thrust stage theatre owned by the Royal Shakespeare Company dedicated to the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.
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Royalty Theatre
The Royalty Theatre was a small London theatre situated at 73 Dean Street, Soho, which opened in 1840 as Miss Kelly's Theatre and Dramatic School and finally closed to the public in 1938.
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Russian Empire
The Russian Empire (Российская Империя) or Russia was an empire that existed across Eurasia and North America from 1721, following the end of the Great Northern War, until the Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Government that took power after the February Revolution of 1917.
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Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha), or Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, was an Ernestine duchy ruled by a branch of the House of Wettin, consisting of territories in the present-day states of Bavaria and Thuringia in Germany.
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Serbia
Serbia (Србија / Srbija),Pannonian Rusyn: Сербия; Szerbia; Albanian and Romanian: Serbia; Slovak and Czech: Srbsko,; Сърбия.
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Stratford-upon-Avon
Stratford-upon-Avon is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon District, in the county of Warwickshire, England, on the River Avon, north west of London, south east of Birmingham, and south west of Warwick.
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Taras Shevchenko
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (–) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, as well as folklorist and ethnographer.
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The Captive Slave
The Captive Slave is a portrait painted by the artist John Simpson (1782–1847), which was first exhibited in London in 1827.
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The Globe (London newspaper)
The Globe was a British newspaper which ran from 1803 to 1921.
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The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice is a 16th-century play written by William Shakespeare in which a merchant in Venice must default on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Old Vic
The Old Vic is a 1,000-seat, not-for-profit producing theatre, located just south-east of Waterloo station on the corner of the Cut and Waterloo Road in Lambeth, London, England.
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The Padlock
The Padlock is a two-act 'afterpiece' opera by Charles Dibdin.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.
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Thomas Southerne
Thomas Southerne (1660 – 26 May 1746) was an Irish dramatist.
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Thomas William Robertson
Thomas William Robertson (9 January 1829 – 3 February 1871), usually known professionally as T. W. Robertson, was an English dramatist and innovative stage director best known for a series of realistic or naturalistic plays produced in London in the 1860s that broke new ground and inspired playwrights such as W.S. Gilbert and George Bernard Shaw.
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Trewman's Exeter Flying Post
Trewman's Exeter Flying Post was a weekly newspaper published in Exeter between 1763 and 1917.
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Tsar
Tsar (Old Bulgarian / Old Church Slavonic: ц︢рь or цар, цaрь), also spelled csar, or czar, is a title used to designate East and South Slavic monarchs or supreme rulers of Eastern Europe.
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Upper Norwood
Upper Norwood is an area of southeast London within the London Boroughs of Bromley, Croydon, Lambeth and Southwark.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
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100 Greatest African Americans
100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Aldridge
